“These guys need to be dealt with severely. But please don’t paint all cops with such a broad brush. Get the bad ones out, and praise the good cops.”
Your not understanding that it’s not about cops. Their are good cops, bad cops, stupid cops, smart cops, heroic cops, cowardly cops, fat cops, skinny cops. It’s not about that.
We have an institutional problem. Government is too powerful. These Union Thugs with cheap haircuts, bad ass sunglasses, wide discretionary powers and a code book do big it cannot be stuffed in the back of a squad car are a symptom of large gubment. Now I could not for the life of me understand what would make anybody want to be a gubment enforcer, and live off great hunks of gubment cheese stolen from citizens, I don’t see individual cops as the problem. The problem is they are too well funded. They are protected from criminal and civil law suits for their actions. If these cops, their supervisor, the D.A. and the Judge who issued the warrant were held criminally responsible, charged with Murder One, they would be more careful. If they went to jail, then the families of these cops, D.A.’s, and judges had their houses, cars, silverware and bed sheets sold off at auction to pay restitution they would be more careful.
The special protections need to end. No buffer. Personal civil and criminal responsibility.
Every time I go through the TSA (and I must for my job) they are more disrespectful, more attitudinous, more smart-assed, more calloused, more groping, more surly.
Of course they are Feds and this is a local cop issue but the point is, as you said, they, regardless of what level of 'gubmint' have infinite money, infinite protection from the courts, and a fundamental dislike of the citizenry.
History tells us that the more power they get, the more tyrannical they become. It's just plain old human nature. It's why America was founded.
We gotta get ALL these dogs back under the porch.
“We have an institutional problem.”
Agree wholeheartedly!! In instances where the judge issues the search warrant, it is not the fault of the judge if the storm troopers screw up the address. We cannot have judges being sued as that crowbar the justice system entirely based on legit and bogus lawsuits (primarily the latter). Judges can be removed by other means already in place.
But we should go after the police IN CHARGE that allowed this to occur. The massive hail of bullets (whether at the wrong address or not) is nonsense. This is criminal negligence and they should be hung at the nearest tree.